Driver alerts for increased awareness, including upcoming sharp curves, school zones, speed changes and more

Garmin Real Directions feature guides like a friend, using landmarks and traffic lights

Find new and popular restaurants, shops and more with Foursquare

Helpful Driver Alerts for Your Daily Commute

Garmin Drive 50 GPS navigator provides driver alerts to encourage safer driving and increase situational awareness. Warnings include alerts for sharp curves, speed changes, railroad crossings and animal crossings. Additionally, Garmin Drive 50 notifies you when driving the wrong way on a one-way street and sends warnings for nearby school zones. Receive alerts for nearby red light and speed cameras. For longer drives, a fatigue warning suggests break times and potential rest areas after hours of driving. The Up Ahead feature lets you easily see places up ahead and milestones along your route, without leaving the map view.

Guidance Using Recognizable Landmarks

Garmin Drive 50 redefines "spoken turn-by-turn directions" with Garmin Real Directions, easy-to-understand driving directions that guide like a friend, using recognizable landmarks, buildings and traffic lights (e.g., "Turn right after the red building" or "Turn left after the QT"). It?s preloaded with millions more new and popular places, thanks to Foursquare.

Find Exactly Where You Need to Go

The Direct Access feature simplifies navigating to select complex destinations, like airports and shopping malls, by finding a place within a larger location. Direct Access even navigates through parking lots to find the entrance nearest your destination. When navigating to the mall, Direct Access gives additional location information for specific retail stores inside. For example, "Arriving at Woodfield Mall. Anthropologie is inside, on the upper level."

Easier to Search, Quicker to Find

Garmin Drive 50 has a search field that makes it easy to find addresses and millions of points of interest (POIs). Simply enter a category (like "pizza"), an entire address ("1234 Sycamore Lane, Anytown, USA") or a proper name ("Starbucks"), and Garmin Drive 50 quickly returns your results.

Add a Camera to Your Drive

For a complete navigation solution, Garmin Drive 50 pairs with the BC 30 wireless backup camera (sold separately; professional installation recommended). Once connected, you can easily see vehicles, pedestrians and other obstacles right on the Garmin Drive 50 display, as you move in reverse. When traveling with a baby or toddler, add Garmin babyCam to your drive. babyCam is an in-vehicle video baby monitor that conveniently provides an "on demand" view of your backseat passenger, right on your navigation display.

One-stop Device Management

Use Garmin Express to keep your Garmin Drive 50 up to date. Garmin Express makes it easy to update maps and software, transfer favorites to and from devices and install free custom vehicles and voices.

The quality of map data can make all the difference between finding your destination and getting lost. High-quality HERE map data enables your Garmin device to provide you with the information you need, when you need it most, reducing the frustrations of driving by avoiding delays and cutting down the time you spend in the car.

Physical and Performance

Physical Dmensions: 5.5"W x 3.3"H x .8"D (14.0 x 8.4 x 2.0 cm)

Display Size, WxH: 4.4"W x 2.5"H (11.1 x 6.3 cm); 5.0" diag (12.7 cm)

Display Resolution, WxH: 480 x 272 pixels

Display Type: WQVGA color TFT with white backlight

Weight: 6.0 oz (170.8 g)

Battery: Rechargeable lithium-ion

Battery Life: Up to 1 hour

High-sensitivity Receiver: Yes

Maps and Memory

Preloaded Street Maps: Yes

nuMaps Guarantee: Yes

Built-in Memory: Internal solid state

Accepts Data Cards: microSD card (not included)

Custom POIs (ability to add additional points of interest): Yes

Waypoints/Favorites/Locations: 1000

Navigation Features

Speaks Street Names (e.g. "Turn right ON ELM STREET in 500 ft."): Yes

Lane Assist (guides to proper lane for navigation): Yes

Junction View (displays junction signs): Yes

Route Avoidance (avoid highways, tolls etc.): Yes

Speed Limit Indicator (displays speed limit for most major roads in the U.S. and Europe): Yes

View upcoming points of interest along route: Yes

Additional

Trip Planner: Yes

Trip Log: Yes

Powered Magnetic Mount: No

Garmin Real Directions Landmark Guidance: Yes

Foursquare POIs: Yes

This USB mass storage device is compatible with Windows XP or newer and Mac OS X 10.4 or later.